AI6YR Ben
NOLA: A father and son fishing at Slidell's Heritage Park on Sunday afternoon, July 21, hooked what appeared to be a child's body — and prompted an underwater search by the Slidell Police Department's dive team. (TLDR: someone lost a water safety training aid doll!) https://www.nola.com/news/northshore/water-safety-doll-slidell-police/article_8d473e3a-4838-11ef-a960-77c19ce988c4.html #SearchAndRescue #SAR #waterrescue
A 'child's body' in water creates big scare at Slidell park. Police share an explanation.

Here's what happened.

NOLA.com
Jul 30, 2024 at 4:20pmWeb
Show threadJoel VanderWerfJul 30, 2024

@ai6yr

And the 🏆 for best use of TLDR in a post goes to...

Show threadAI6YR BenJul 30, 2024
@joelvanderwerf I hate click bait.
Show threadJohn BurnsJul 30, 2024

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The training bodies we used in the 80's & 90's - would never be confused with a real human. Plus the "rubberized skin" - is obvious.

Searching by the dive team - was wholly unnecessary... However, always good to do a training dive.